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<h1>SAFE -- Sentinel-1 SAFE XML Product</h1>

<p>Driver for Sentinel products.
    Currently supports only Sentinel-1 SAR products. See also the <a href="frmt_sentinel2.html">GDAL Sentinel-2 driver</a></p>

<p>SENTINEL data products are distributed using a SENTINEL-specific variation of
the Standard Archive Format for Europe (SAFE) format specification.
The SAFE format has been designed to act as a common format for archiving
and conveying data within ESA Earth Observation archiving facilities. </p>

<p>The SAFE driver will be used if the manifest.safe or
the containing directory is selected, and it can treat all the imagery as
one consistent dataset.</p>

<p>The SAFE driver also reads geolocation grid points from the metadata
and represents them as GCPs on the dataset. <p>

<p>ESA will be distributing other satellite datasets in this format;
however, at this time this driver only supports specific Sentinel-1 SAR products.
All other will be ignored, or result in various runtime errors.</p>

<h2>Multiple measurements</h2>
<p>If the product contains multiple measurements (for example multiple
polarizations), each one is available as a raster band</p>


<h2>Data Calibration</h2>
<p>Currently the driver does not apply calibration information.</p>

<h2>See Also:</h2>

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    <li><a href="https://sentinel.esa.int/web/sentinel/user-guides/sentinel-1-sar/data-formats/sar-formats">SAR Formats (ESA Sentinel Online)</a></li>

    <li><a href="https://sentinel.esa.int/web/sentinel/user-guides/sentinel-1-sar/data-formats/safe-specification">SAFE Specification (ESA Sentinel Online)</a></li>

    <li><a href="frmt_sentinel2.html">GDAL Sentinel-2 driver</a></li>
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